recent developments in medicine have given us a better insight into a group of disorders known as autoimmune diseases. in particular, advances have occurred in our understanding of the autoimmune inner ear disease (aied). in this article, the authors review the different postulated theories in the pathogenesis of this disease. the clinical presentation, the available para-clinical diagnostic to...

the aim of the current study is to investigate hearing function in patients with allergic rhinitis. fifty-eight patients with positive skin prick test (group 1) (116 ears) and    31 subjects with negative skin prick test (62 ears) as group 2 were included. pure tone audiometry at 250,500, 1000, 2000, 4000 and 8000 hz and immittance measures, including tympanometry and acoustic reflex tests, wer...

Introduction: Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is one of the possible complications of radiotherapy treatment of brain tumors. The auditory system of patients with brain tumors often is placed inside of radiation field and receives a significant amount of radiation dose resulting in hearing loss. The purpose of this study was to compare contouring and delivery dose to cochlea...

Recent developments in medicine have given us a better insight into a group of disorders known as autoimmune diseases. In particular, advances have occurred in our understanding of the Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED). In this article, the authors review the different postulated theories in the pathogenesis of this disease. The clinical presentation, the available para-clinical diagnostic to...

background many clinical and experimental studies have been done to analyze the anatomical and functional aspects of the internal auditory canal (iac) in human beings since there are great inter-individual variability and structural variations that may occur regarding the other adjacent structures. objectives the purpose of this study was to characterize the morphology of the internal auditory ...

communication between subarachnoid and per lymphatic spaces can be due to a deficiency of lamina crib rosa (stapes gusher). recognition of the condition may alter the course of treatment that can avoid perilymph gushing. a five-year-old boy presented with a history of congenital hearing loss and recurrent meningitis. the computed tomography (ct) of the temporal bone showed severe bilateral dysp...

introduction: congenital anomalies of the cochlea and labyrinth can be associated with meningitis and varying degrees of hearing loss or deafness. despite antibiotics, meningitis remains a life threatening complication.   case report: we report a case of recurrent meningitis following episodes of otitis media in a cochlear implantee child with bilateral vestibulocochlear malformation, due to fi...